Re: The problem with not owning the software

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 12:09:24 -0000 (UTC), Chris wrote:
 

LO should have stopped copying excel long ago and taken its users to a
better spreadsheet experience.

 
Actually, it already did. Note recommendation in this research paper
<https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008984>,
that if you really must use a spreadsheet to work with important data,
at least make it LibreOffice Calc and not Microsoft Excel.

LO must have changed their behaviour as when I tested this many years ago
when working with genomic data it behaved the same as excel. I noticed
recently that excel finally has a toggle for date recognition and
conversion. Which is way, way too late as it is a moot issue as the
problematic gene names have officially been changed to circumvent excel:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-020-0669-3

LO should work with Posit and build a proper analytical/statistical data
platform based around R.

 
We have that, too. It’s called Jupyter <https://jupyter.org/>.

Not user-friendly enough.